Drama Flashcards
a type of religious drama in the Middle Ages based on stories about saints or martyrs
Miracle play
Medieval drama designed to teach a lesson. The characters were often allegorical and represented virtues or faults.
Morality Play
a play concerned with the last week in the life of Christ
Passion Play
a drama that represents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to i
problem play
lacks dramatic reality in its presentation of middle-class emotions and tenderness
sentimental comedy
what we find in dictionaries: literal meanings of words
Denotations
the associated meanings a word may have beyond its literal or denotative meaning
Connotations
A witty and risque satire of upper-class etiquette and beliefs
comedy of manners
A play lacking dramatic reality in its presentation of middle class emotions and tenderness
Sentimental comedy
a play the addresses a social problem or issue
problem play
a poem of lament or mourning
Elegy
narrative poems in short stanzas that were often sung
ballads
a revival of the style and attitude of ancient Greece.
Neoclassicism
a mock epic imitates an epic in structure and features a mundane event that is made to appear ridiculous through the use of elevated, lofty language.
mock epic
Literature of the Romantic age emphasized emotions and creativity
Romanticism
A character that is defiant, flawed, and brooding; resembling the poet, Lord Byron
Byronic hero
believed that the ideal spiritual state goes beyond ordinary experience
Transcendentalism
unmetered lines of no particular length modeled on speech patterns
free verse
use more than one word to name a person, place, thing, or abstraction. tree house, bookcase, street lamp, football
Compound Nouns
name a physical object. piano, dime, picture frame, candlestick
Concrete Nouns
name a concept or idea freedom, acceptance, happiness
Abstract Nouns
name a group of things or people. herd, gaggle, team, bouquet, audience, bunch
Collective Nouns
name a specific person, place, thing, or abstraction. Queen Victoria, Fiji, the Hope Diamond, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Proper Nouns
indicates who or what is doing the action. It’s often placed at the beginning of a sentence before the verb. A giant coast redwood can grow to heights exceeding 350 feet.
subject
identifies to whom or to what the action was done. Direct objects are usually placed after the verb in a sentence He climbed the redwood quietly, listening to the creaks of the old tree.
direct object
answers the question “For what did the action occur?” or “For whom did the action occur?” She gave all the love she had to the venerable redwood.
indirect object
A word that defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun or word to another element in the sentence Ex: in, over, because, after
preposition.
provides more information about a noun.
appositive
Part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject
Subject complement
links the subject or subject complement; unlike action verbs, linking verbs don’t describe the subject doing anything; provides more descriptive information about the subject
linking verb
part of a sentence that comes after a linking verb to explain or identify the subject
predicate noun
word a pronoun stands in for
antecedent
defines the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word or element in the sentences
prepositions
contains a verb and related objects in a sentence
Predicate
